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Monday, October 5, 2009

Learning to Think Outside the Box - INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos


Learning to Think Outside the Box - INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos:

"While parents and politicians worry about crumbling facilities and decimated budgets, students know that the heart of education beats inside the individual teacher. More than spacious playgrounds or sparkling cafeterias; more, even, than top-notch textbooks and state-of-the art computers, it’s the teacher who makes the difference. When NAM asked young people in our youth communications programs to write about the one teacher who’d really made a difference, they barely had to think before the keys were flying. This collection of pieces was underwritten by a project funded through the California Teachers Association.”)"